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Are you sentimental?

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  • 29-05-2014 10:49am
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    Legs.Eleven
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    I'm very sentimental and really find it hard to hold it together sometimes. This morning was an example of that.

    I showed the video below in class as part of an English lesson to some adult Spanish students and warned them before i started it that they were probably going to cry like I did. I'd already seen the video the night before, so knew what to expect but halfway through the video, I let out a sob and couldn't hold it together. I expected them all to be in the same state when I turned around but there wasn't a wet eye in the house and I felt like a right plonker wiping my eyes and blowing my nose while asking them their opinion on it.

    Most liked it but one commented on how they hate these sentimental kinds of videos made to manipulate people in order to go viral (which it actually hasn't). I thought it was such a cynical viewpoint that I couldn't relate to at all, especially as the story is true and the people in it are obviously sincere; I thought it was beautiful tbh.

    Is anyone else here as sentimental as I am or do others here hate sentimental stuff like this? Do you cry when you watch movies or see a baby laugh or someone offering their seat to an old person, for example?

    Here's the vid (be warned: you might cry!):

    http://vimeo.com/85667492


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    endacl
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    Didn't cry. Why would you cry at that?


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    Barely There
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    As a real man, I believe the only times it's acceptable to cry is when your dog dies or you've been kicked really hard in the balls.


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    Legs.Eleven
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    endacl wrote: »
    Didn't cry. Why would you cry at that?

    Because he got off the streets, met his brother after years of not seeing him and got his poems published! Eh...how could you not be moved by that? :confused:



    *Checks calendar to see if Shark Week is approaching*


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    The One Doctor
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    Sentimentality is dangerous, so I don't use. it. It's the same force people use to justify not changing things that are in need of change. It's a very powerful and supremely illogical force.


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    The Backwards Man
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    I cried. :o








    Bloody phone won't play the clip.


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    jimgoose
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    Barely There wrote: »
    As a real man, I believe the only times it's acceptable to cry is when your dog dies or you've been kicked really hard in the balls.

    Correct and right. It is also acceptable to come over all maudlin over the demise of the Great British Sportscar - Triumph TR6, Austin-Healy, Lotus Esprit, etc. - but only after a gallon a' porter.


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    anncoates
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    Generally, yes.


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    gugleguy
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    Yes. But others see it as a chunk in my armour. Give an inch......


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    jimgoose
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    The One Doctor wrote: »
    Sentimentality is dangerous, so I don't use. it. It's the same force people use to justify not changing things that are in need of change. It's a very powerful and supremely illogical force.

    You are Qui-Gon Jinn, and I claim two packets of Rancheros! :D


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    Legs.Eleven
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    anncoates wrote: »
    Generally, yes.

    Did the video touch you?


    Did you CRY???


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    Legs.Eleven
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    The One Doctor wrote: »
    Sentimentality is dangerous, so I don't use. it. It's the same force people use to justify not changing things that are in need of change. It's a very powerful and supremely illogical force.

    I don't really get what you're saying here.


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    jimgoose
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    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    Did the video touch you?...

    Show us on the doll where the bad video touched you! :pac::pac::pac:


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    endacl
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    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    Because he got off the streets, met his brother after years of not seeing him and got his poems published! Eh...how could you not be moved by that? :confused:



    *Checks calendar to see if Shark Week is approaching*

    Didn't say I wasn't moved! It was a nice story! I just didn't bawl me eyes out.

    Here's one for you. Kleenex on standby!

    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NKDXuCE7LeQ


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    Peregrine
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    Moving. But no, I didn't cry.


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    Duggy747
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    The GF thinks I'm an emotionless robot because she's never seen me shed a tear :pac:
    Barely There wrote: »
    As a real man, I believe the only times it's acceptable to cry is when your dog dies or you've been kicked really hard in the balls.

    Or this...


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    jimgoose
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    Duggy747 wrote: »
    ...Or this...

    <sniff> :o


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    anncoates
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    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    Did the video touch you?

    Did you CRY???

    I'm in work so I'll sneak a look at it in a while.

    I'm kinda fireproof to some obvious sentimental things but then very mawkish about others. Any story about kids being badly mistreated or abandoned in the media makes me tearful or I'm a sucker for sh_te like that story a few months back where the old couple took pictures of each other in the garden for each season and then one of them died. I'm also a hopelessly nostalgic person.


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    Sleepy
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    I'm odd. I'll get sentimental about things which I'll keep for no good reason (e.g. I still have the champagne cork from the day I got my Leaving Cert results, a keyring from my first part-time job etc.) but I'm utterly de-sensitised to "emotive" videos...


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    Legs.Eleven
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I cried. :o








    Bloody phone won't play the clip.

    As I was scrolling down there, I thought, "Course Backwards man cried :o" but....no. :(


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    zl1whqvjs75cdy
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    I hate all these videos and television shows designed to manipulate your emotions. For example while being forced to endure 24 hours in a and e last night on channel 4, I saw an ad for an upcoming series which follows 6 terminally ill people around in the final days of their lives. It seems designed to appeal to your most basic emotions to win viewers. If that's not cynical I don't know what is.


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    iDave
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    Cant spell sentimental without mental.


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    Legs.Eleven
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    endacl wrote: »
    Didn't say I wasn't moved! It was a nice story! I just didn't bawl me eyes out.

    Here's one for you. Kleenex on standby!

    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NKDXuCE7LeQ



    Ah not bawl your eyes out but shed a bleedin' tear ffs! Just played it for my boyfriend who's very sentimental and he didn't cry either.



    Might it be the two big glasses of wine I had last night and I'm just hungover? :confused:


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    Legs.Eleven
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    donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »
    I hate all these videos and television shows designed to manipulate your emotions. For example while being forced to endure 24 hours in a and e last night on channel 4, I saw an ad for an upcoming series which follows 6 terminally ill people around in the final days of their lives. It seems designed to appeal to your most basic emotions to win viewers. If that's not cynical I don't know what is.

    Do you think that video specifically was made to manipulate though? Genuinely curious.


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    Zab
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    That was way too dripping in inspiration.

    I think this is the saddest thing I've ever read: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34/other-other-topics/dealing-loss-stillbirth-381/


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    Barely There
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    There's too much bawling and blubbing these days.

    X Factor and shows of a similar ilk have become cry-porn.

    You've been eliminated - *crys*

    You're through to the next round - *crys*

    It's time for an ad-break - *crys*


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    Maximus Alexander
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    I'm fairly sentimental, in that I can be moved by things and I might struggle to throw out old love letters and birthday cards and things like that, but I also have a powerful bullshit filter and I don't cry just because I find something touching.


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    zl1whqvjs75cdy
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    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    Do you think that video specifically was made to manipulate though? Genuinely curious.

    The one in the OP? Probably not. I'd hope (maybe naively) that "regular joe" is generally not that conniving. I do think however that they subconsciously equate "emotional sob story" with "loads of youtube views". SO they are manipulative without consciously trying to be if you know what I mean?

    I think Channel 4 are definitely doing it on purpose.


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    The One Doctor
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    What annoys me is the way TV and film deliberately manipulates emotions with music. We're told what to feel at specific times. Except in Fair City. Then I just laugh all the way through an episode. Best comedy ever.


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    The Backwards Man
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    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    As I was scrolling down there, I thought, "Course Backwards man cried :o" but....no. :(

    Right Legs, I was underneath a Caddy fixing an undertray. So I gets out of the pit, down to the house, swarfegas the hell out of my hands, powers up the laptop so I could watch that clip. All for you.

    And I didn't cry.


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    dee_mc
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    I'm pretty sentimental (proper sentimental like keeping things for years because they remind me of someone etc, but also have been known to cry because of TV shows or films :D ) but that video didn't do it for me to be honest... nice story though.


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